Together, Pokémon Sword/Shield broke the records for highest first-week sales of a Switch game and the fastest Switch game to reach 6 million units sold.
The games sold 2 million units in Japan in their first week.
Nintendo also announced that the games sold more than 2 million copies in the United States during their first two days, which marks the highest-grossing launch for a Pokémon game in the U.S. The game sold more than six million units worldwide during their first week.
The first episode will debut on YouTube on January 15, with a new episode debuting every month thereafter.